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A review by mollykxo
The Girls Are Good by Ilaria Bernardini
4.0
Do note that there are trigger warnings for sexual assault/ trauma when reading this book.
‘The girls are good’ comes at a perfect time - in the midst of the Winter Olympics, when the abuse of young sportspeople should be at the forefront of everybody’s mind. A story weaved in the post-Nassar era of USA gymnastics, it follows a group of young, elite gymnasts - and the trauma that their physicist, and the willingness of those in the sport to turn blind eye for the sake of a few medals.
This story is real, and it’s important. Certainly, there are fictionalised and dramatised elements (specifically the end) - but it gets the cut throat nature of competitive sports, caused often by the varying trauma responses of the team, bang on.
Thank you to netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review :)
‘The girls are good’ comes at a perfect time - in the midst of the Winter Olympics, when the abuse of young sportspeople should be at the forefront of everybody’s mind. A story weaved in the post-Nassar era of USA gymnastics, it follows a group of young, elite gymnasts - and the trauma that their physicist, and the willingness of those in the sport to turn blind eye for the sake of a few medals.
This story is real, and it’s important. Certainly, there are fictionalised and dramatised elements (specifically the end) - but it gets the cut throat nature of competitive sports, caused often by the varying trauma responses of the team, bang on.
Thank you to netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review :)